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Finally got a bottle of ama iro. It looks so nice while still drying so fast, so I'm definitely going to have to pick up some other Iroshizuku inks when the time comes. My problem now is I need more pens so I can switch inks on the fly while taking notes. I could grab more sale Preppys from the bookstore but some variety would be nice, although I don't think anyone else around here is going to have pens that cheap.
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Two words friend, Shark Pens
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Hello thread! I need a recommendation for a mid-tier pen that gives the thinnest possible line that’s still smooth and nice to use. My only current pen is a lamy 2000 broad so I’d rather not just get the exact same again unless they’re the super best somehow.
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Same Great Paste posted:Hello thread! I need a recommendation for a mid-tier pen that gives the thinnest possible line that’s still smooth and nice to use. My only current pen is a lamy 2000 broad so I’d rather not just get the exact same again unless they’re the super best somehow. TWSBI ECO EF
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Sep 25, 2022 06:36
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Keetron posted:TWSBI ECO EF
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Sep 25, 2022 06:51
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Same Great Paste posted:Hello thread! I need a recommendation for a mid-tier pen that gives the thinnest possible line that’s still smooth and nice to use. My only current pen is a lamy 2000 broad so I’d rather not just get the exact same again unless they’re the super best somehow. Preppy EF
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Sep 25, 2022 09:52
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Prera EF.
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By mid-tier do you mean low-ish gold price, like the Lamy you have? Or around the price point of, say, a TWSBI 580? While I tend to avoid finer nibs, ime Pilot makes very smooth (a bit too smooth for me) nibs that often tend towards finer nibs in a given size. Their modern gold nib pens may be a good option for you if you’re looking at that price point. Of those, I’d be careful about the elite, as it can run a bit large. The Vanishing Points tend to have smaller nibs IME, while the 74 and the 92 have standard eastern nib sizing. If you’re looking for cheaper options, while I don’t have much experience with fines in the TWSBI 580 range, there are surprisingly nice Pilot 3A EF vintage pens on eBay for <$20. In terms of nib sizing: the Lamy 2000 broad is fairly smooth. I know it’s your only pen right now, but do you have any experience with smaller/rougher nibs?
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grack posted:
After pics (this guy took two weeks to get back to me about the repair)  
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Thanks for the suggestions but I clearly phrased it wrong. I was asking around non-luxury gold tips, yes. My bad.NiftyBottle posted:By mid-tier do you mean low-ish gold price, like the Lamy you have? Or around the price point of, say, a TWSBI 580? Thanks for the suggestion about Pilot! Yes I’ve worked my way up through disposables and Safaris of all sizes. I love the smoothness of the 2000, it’s the only one I still use. Hoping to find the best EF counterpart.
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sb hermit posted:How are you refilling it? Do you have a piston or is it just a cartridge and a syringe? I’m not at home, but they take carts and any Pilot converter except the con-70. You can remove the actual “pen” part of it and just dunk that and wipe clean before putting it back into the main body.
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Kerbtree posted:I’m not at home, but they take carts and any Pilot converter except the con-70. You can remove the actual “pen” part of it and just dunk that and wipe clean before putting it back into the main body. Thanks! Maybe I should give it a shot.
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Sep 26, 2022 11:28
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howe_sam posted:Two words friend, Shark Pens Those look so cute! Unfortunately I'm in Canada so shipping is a killer unless I'm ordering from Wonderpens, although I haven't done an online pen order since I first got my very first Metropolitan so maybe there's other online shops in the country now.
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Coxswain Balls posted:Those look so cute! Unfortunately I'm in Canada so shipping is a killer unless I'm ordering from Wonderpens, although I haven't done an online pen order since I first got my very first Metropolitan so maybe there's other online shops in the country now. You can get them off of Amazon, but you have to buy six.
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You can get a batch of shark pens from AliExpress for like $6 I got a bunch and just give em out in the office.
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A new Jinhao X159 arrived today and I think I'm love! This is so much better than the all-metal 159. It's a nice oversized pen with about the same dimensions and styling of the Montblanc 159, but at a ridiculously low price. I think mine was $5.50 including shipping. What makes it really cool though is that it has a steel #8 sized nib.   Even though I'm partial to wider line widths, this only comes in Fine or Extra Fine, so I got a fine. With a wet ink it runs a smidge wider, but the nib has a really pleasing bounciness and feels smooth so I'm not complaining.
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I’ve heard that cosmo air light, the paper people used to replace tomoe river when it looked like it was being discontinued, is being discontinued. I never used it myself. Was it any good?
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I AM GRANDO posted:I’ve heard that cosmo air light, the paper people used to replace tomoe river when it looked like it was being discontinued, is being discontinued. I never used it myself. Was it any good? Yup: https://musu.bi/stories/2022-09-cosmo-air-light-is-being-discontinued
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How the semester started vs. how it's currently going  I have a problem
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Coxswain Balls posted:How the semester started vs. how it's currently going good choice of ink and pens, not sure what the problem is 
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Coxswain Balls posted:How the semester started vs. how it's currently going Yeah, it sucks having duplicate colors of pens. You should probably get more
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Coxswain Balls posted:How the semester started vs. how it's currently going Edit: As an example, I went from one Pilot Metro and one bottle of cheap blue ink to 60+ pens, a shelf full of ink bottles, and two test tube racks full of samples in about a year. And this thread has taught me that is fairly normal/tame.
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I've been partially buried under a large pile of Delta fountain pens for three days. Please send help Also please send more Deltas
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Coxswain Balls posted:How the semester started vs. how it's currently going I'll mirror the rest of the comments to say that this is pretty tame in comparison to how a lot of us saw our collection grow. I used a Metropolitan and cartridges for a year before I found out about bottled ink, cartridge converters, cheap Chinese pens, expensive limited editions, and sample inks. Needless to say, although I'm not buying as much as I used to, I'm still planning out my first Cult Pens order full of Diamine Ink.
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I thought I was being financially irresponsible getting all that in the span of a month, but I'm willing to take solace in the fact that there's people out there worse with money than me.
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Obviously don't know your financial situation, but its not looking like you went on a  tear there. Compared to a lot of us, you are a model of restraint. Carry on, friend.
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You also have excellent taste, I have quite a few cheap no-name pens that I wish I'd combined the price of into something nicer
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Coxswain Balls posted:I thought I was being financially irresponsible getting all that in the span of a month, but I'm willing to take solace in the fact that there's people out there worse with money than me. speaking of grack
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stealie72 posted:Obviously don't know your financial situation, but its not looking like you went on a
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Me in 2019: Man, my handwriting sucks. I need to do something about it, maybe I could try practicing cursive? Me in 2022: YES…HA HA…YEEES! *greedily tears up the latest package, spilling an assortment of ink bottles, Jinhaos, Leuchtturm notebooks and bamboo dip pens all over my desk*
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The way I'm justifying it is that those studies about writing stuff down by hand vs. typing have proven absolutely true for me to help with retention and comprehension. The more pen junk I have the more motivated I am to use them and make sure I understand what's going on. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself. The routine I've settled in to is having a pad of graph paper for quick note taking and in-class example problems that always end up being messy as hell, especially with a meandering professor. After class I cross reference with my readings to make sure I have all the important bits and confirm I understood everything, and put it in my notebook with clean layout and formatting and colors to hammer it home, and to have a nice reference when I get stuck on a practice exercise later. Similar to what I was doing with OneNote up until now, but I'm certainly having more fun doing it this way, even if it's much slower. Chromatics posted:You also have excellent taste, I have quite a few cheap no-name pens that I wish I'd combined the price of into something nicer I found that Lamy demonstrator for $10CAD that was sitting on the local buy & sell for a few weeks and I knew I had to get it because I want to see what other nibs are like. She had a bunch of other pens for sale in the non-starter range too but I really can't be spending a hundred bucks on a pen. She was selling the Private Reserve Plum for $8, so I knew I had to grab that since it's on the list of fast dry inks. It feels smooth as hell with a wet flow using the included green cart, although I wish I could rotate the nib so my lefty grip plays nice with the angles without having to fight the triangular section. I'd love to try one with a finer nib. It got me more curious about finer European nibs so I grabbed that Kaweco Perkeo from the local pennery with a fine nib that looked cute. I also figured I should get some proper cartridges since I not a fan of the squeeze converter my Kaweco Sport came with, and I can just reuse the carts since I have plenty of blunt syringes kicking around. That was my Friday and Saturday apart from studying. The only thing keeping me from looking up more pen stuff is that everything's going to be closed tomorrow for Thanksgiving. I still walk by the fountain pen section of the university bookstore every other day but I don't want to risk some sketchy bad inks that weren't sealed right at the factory. They even put the bottle I returned back on the shelf, even after showing them how it was all clumpy inside and how another bottle was the same.They have Lamy inks on clearance that are hopefully fine, so if it's cheap enough I might grab one of those, although going by the supplied cart that was included with the Vista Lamy ink seems super wet.
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Coxswain Balls posted:She was selling the Private Reserve Plum for $8, so I knew I had to grab that since it's on the list of fast dry inks. Please let us know how this writes. I'm still looking for good fast dry inks. I know that Mountain of Inks did a review, though... https://mountainofink.com/blog/private-reserve-plum
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Coxswain Balls posted:I thought I was being financially irresponsible getting all that in the span of a month, but I'm willing to take solace in the fact that there's people out there worse with money than me. And from the other posts you made it seems that you not only buy things but actually use them and that is a lot more than I can say for the bulk of my ink and pens. Although by now a few of my more frequently used pens are writing notably smoother than pens I used very little so I guess I use the 6 or 7 pens I have in rotation often enough. In fact, my most expensive pen, a 150EU gold nibbed sailor is the worst writer I own, I might trade it in for a gold nibbed Pilot provided the store is interested (I do not think so so my kids will sell it for 30 after I die) (or worse, it goes in the bin of one of those Hoader House buyers who then puts it on ebay) (drat, these edits make me angry, how to tell my kids to treat a gold nibbed pen I never used with some respect?)(gently caress it, I'll sell it myself, I'll take some pics and put it up here) Keetron fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Oct 10, 2022 |
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Coxswain Balls posted:The way I'm justifying it is that those studies about writing stuff down by hand vs. typing have proven absolutely true for me to help with retention and comprehension. The more pen junk I have the more motivated I am to use them and make sure I understand what's going on. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself. I wish I had just one pen store that was close by. I think the closest is a 5.5 hour drive away. I'm jealous that you have so many options, although I suppose my wallet is thicker because I don't have a store I could hop into to grab an on-sale pen.
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FAUXTON posted:speaking of grack Hey, my last three pen purchases have been funded entirely with nib repair work.
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grack posted:Hey, my last three pen purchases have been funded entirely with nib repair work. circle of life right there
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Have people had good experience with Appelboom pens? A little baffled by my current situation. I ordered a Leonardo 14k nib a few months ago, and got the package a few days ago due to supply shortages (not Appelboom's). It's got my address and name and everything, but upon opening the package, I found a whole mess of other people's orders with mine. Like 3 labeled with receipts that aren't for me or my address, and at least two that appear to be direct to the Boston store from the NL, since they don't have receipts or names. The package came from the Boston store. Some of these appear expensive, like a 18k gold/gold Parker Sonnet nib. I've emailed them about the predicament. Just a fluke or have others had things like this happen? Also, would I be out of line to ask for something to cover shipping costs?
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Corrigenda posted:Also, would I be out of line to ask for something to cover shipping costs? To return their stuff to them? Of course that wouldn't be out of line.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaNO9fxXFwE&t=105s Not mentioned, Nitrogen's tendency to get everywhere. Still, an overall good list, with a couple inks I haven't tried yet: the Robert Oster and Sailor Manyo Haha.
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(lid of my coffin slides off and I sit directly up) nitrogen bad (lays down again)
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